“The very fact of a genie coming out of lamp means the story has been thoroughly Arabized.” (Genie, or jinni, mythology has its own long history.)Īrafat A. “The characters live in a society defined by Muslim practices,” says Horta. Galland’s Aladdin story is explicitly set in China, but the world it describes doesn’t seem to match up with the real place. In the newest film adaptation, the design of the Sultan’s palace is inspired by a Burmese temple. Scholars have seen a mix of different places in the Aladdin story. Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter Where does Aladdin take place? “We don’t know whether Diyab created the story by combining elements that he learned from hearing other storytellers - in Aleppo or on the journey through the Mediterranean to Paris - or whether he heard the whole story in this form and recorded it in a manuscript or whether he found a now lost manuscript of the story and passed it on to Galland,” says Paulo Lemos Horta, author of Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights, who edited a translation of Galland’s Aladdin by Yasmine Seale that came out in 2018. Scholars have long known that Diyab gave Galland the story of Aladdin, but they don’t know exactly where Diyab heard the story in the first place. These stories ended up in volumes nine through 12 of Galland’s translation of the One Thousand and One Nights, completed in 1717.
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Over a series of one-on-one meetings, Diyab told Galland the story of Aladdin, in addition to other now-famous tales such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
When Galland asked the young Syrian if he knew any “Arabian Nights” stories, Diyab said he did.
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Lucas’ apartment, full of his collections, had become a tourist destination in its own right, and it was there that Galland first met Diyab, who accompanied Lucas as a travel companion and interpreter, on Mar. Perhaps in search of more clues, Galland went to the apartment of his friend and rival Paul Lucas, a “tomb raider,” who traveled back and forth between Paris and the Middle East to satisfy Louis XIV’s taste for jewels and other precious objects from the region.
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